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Pavement hydroplaning risk evaluation with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and 1mm 3D texture data
(2015-07)
During wet weather automobiles traveling on pavements may experience hydroplaning that would cause out-of-control accidents. Annually 14% of all accidents with fatalities occur on wet pavements. However, not many studies ...
Inter-model, analytical, and experimental validation of a heat balance based residential cooling load calculation procedure
(2006-12)
Scope and Method of Study: A systematic validation of the ASHRAE heat balance based residential cooling load calculation procedure (RHB) has been performed with inter-model comparison, analytical verification and experimental ...
Simultaneous inference in generalized linear model settings
(2007-07)
Generalized Linear Models (GLM's) are utilized in a variety of statistical applications. Many times the estimated quantities from the models are of primary interest. These estimated quantities may include the mean response, ...
Bacterial communities associated with natural and anthropogenic petroleum impacted anaerobic environments
(2012-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The aim of this dissertation was to determine the diversity, abundance, distribution, and morphology of candidate division SR1 from various habitats (including a natural gas impacted fresh water ...
Study of career choice factors and students' academic success at an aviation school
(2008-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of this study was to describe the reasons why students choose careers in aviation, and to determine if there is a relationship between the reasons for career choice and student academic ...
Development of the Spiritual and Religious Competency Assessment (SARCA): An instrument to measure competency in supervisees
(2007-12)
Scope and Method of Study: The primary purposes of this study were to develop a measure of spiritual and religious competency that could be utilized in the supervision relationship and to explore possible predictors of ...
Adolescent perceptions of parental behavior and self-reports of intrinsic and extrinsic religiosity: Cross-sectional vs. longitudinal analyses
(2006-05)
Scope and Method of Study: The purpose of the study was to examine cross-sectional and longitudinal models of how selected demographic and perception of parental behaviors related to variation in adolescent intrinsic and ...
President in the gray flannel suit: Dwight D. Eisenhower and postwar American manhood
(2016-05)
In recent years presidential historians and men studies specialists have combined their fields of study to examine how conceptions of male identity have informed, shaped, and altered the American presidency. Dwight Eisenhower ...
Surface effects and gold-nanostructure surface coating of whispering-gallery microresonators
(2010-05)
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Production of alcohols via syngas fermentation using Alkalibaculum bacchi monoculture and a mixed culture
(2013-12)
Gasification-syngas fermentation is a hybrid conversion technology. In this process, feedstocks such as biomass or municipal solid waste are gasified to syngas (CO, H2 and CO2), which is then converted into biofuels and ...